Duchess Ardai of Edessa

Duchess Ardai of Edessa (1082-) was the wife Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

Biography
Ardai was the daughter of Thoros of Marash, and she was a scion of the Rubenids, a dynasty of Miaphysite Christian Armenians. She married King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1097 after the death of his first wife, and in 1101 she headed by sea to the Kingdom of Jerusalem when her husband became king. In 1105, her husband divorced her because her father paid very little of the dowry, she could bear no children, and she was useless in Jerusalem. She was forced to enter the Monastery of Saint Anne, and she later headed to Constantinople.